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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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